“Bomb Iran” just broke 10,000 views on YouTube! And with 135 comments to date, along with its presence on various political blogs, it has become the stuff of LEGEND. Basically like John Wayne.
In album news, I started recording a song called “Waiting While Sleeping” a few days ago. It is popamatic. Bubble. It features a heaping pile of fuzz bass and Solina. It’s the recipe for beautiful mustiness.
I made a video for the future Missing Briefcase song “Going Insane For The McCain Campaign.” It’s kind of a video b-side to “Bomb Iran.” Cheggit:
I know it doesn’t beat the prairie dog video, but I guess I have to have realistic expectations of myself. AND DON’T FORGET I’m playing at the Main St. Ale House in Gresham tonight at 8 pm. It’s 21+. Attend.
Yesterday I recorded “Bomb Iran,” based on John McCain’s recent joke of singing “bomb Iran” to the tune of The Beach Boys’ “Barbara Ann.” I figured a full version was just begging to be done. I tried to get McCain himself to sing the vocals for me, but he made up some excuse about having to raise money or something for being president…I don’t remember exactly, but he was obviously just blowing me off. Whatever; I told him what time it was. Anyway, here’s the video on YouTube (click here for the lyrics):
So yeah, do that thing where you tell all your friends and enemies about it. If you have an account on YouTube, please rate it. I wanna be the next Star Wars Kid.
Pucknation.com asked me to contribute a list for their The List feature, which can be read here: Top Five Songs Most Often Confused For Love Songs Ever! They’re doing a Valentine’s Day theme with the lists now, and I’m always game for some rock and roll list-making, so it was pretty much meant to be. Which reminds me…I should probably update my top five albums list one of these days, as I haven’t done that for a while. BUT IT’S A SECRET LIST, I’LL NEVER TELL. Unless you give me your after dinner mints.
I don’t remember if I mentioned this yet, but I’ve started recording my next album already. Its tentative title is Missing Briefcase, although that could totally change by the time it comes out (probably sometime in 2008). I have mostly finished “Nuke Song” and am currently working on “The Zaps.” I decided to do the album one song at a time this time instead of the assembly line method of the past, since I’m in no hurry to finish it.
If you want to preview “Nuke Song,” you can watch a very lo-fi video I made for it on YouTube here. It is a poorly made video, make no mistake about it. But the song is good!
ANOTHER SHOW ANNOUNCEMENT: I’m playing at the Lewis & Clark College Co-op on April 12! It’s at 8 PM, and it’s free. Those shows are always super hot, so don’t miss it. And then once you’ve seen that show, go back in time to March 3 and go to my show at Music Millennium.
The one-two knock out of Borders show last weekend were quite excellent. There was an older fellow named John who couldn’t help but dance, all while his wife got her nails done down the way. Alyssa uploaded some videos from her camera of the Eugene show on Friday to YouTube. For some reason, the audio and video get out of sync on a couple of the songs (they weren’t like that before she uploaded them), but I’m gonna try some more to fix it.
I promised some YouTube action, and I have brought it. Mr. Michael Hurd posted the first several songs of the party we played a couple weeks ago. It’s not perfect (I blew my voice out from too much singing/yelling before we played…oops!), but it’s really rad to see the songs with a three piece rock band. Continuing the band motif is something I hope to do from now on, if only I can get Billy Ocean to sing backup. Click here to see the videos!
